Using This Blog

This blog is designed as a “cafeteria”. Take what you like and leave the rest. There is truly something here for everyone who has been involved in the Jehovah’s Witnesses or is currently dealing with leaving the group.

If you have a specific question about anything Jehovah’s Witness related, you can put the word in the search bar (top right of any page on my blog!) and it will pull all of the relevant posts regarding that subject and stack them on a page for you. (Remember that if there is a “>>” symbol at the bottom of the page that there are more posts to view by clicking on that symbol.)

For example: If you want to see every post regarding Charles Taze Russell then you might wish to put the word “Russell” (without the quotes) in the search bar and hit search.

I’ll be posting my articles as I can find time to do so. Hopefully within a few weeks this will be a fully functional blog with a lot more horsepower than the old one on Tumbler.

If you have a question that the blog doesn’t answer, simply hit the “Contact Doug” button at the top and you’ll be able to send me a private message.

Thanks,

Doug Shields is an activist against religious oppression, control and manipulation. He has many years of experience dealing with this issue because he was an active Jehovah’s Witness himself for over twenty-three years. Doug has been privileged to help elders, ministerial servants, full time pioneers and even a circuit overseer to find the strength and determination to finally face the real truth and leave the organization.

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About Me

Hi I'm Doug Shields.
I was a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses for twenty-three years of my life. I finally realized that they didn't have "the truth" and I left the organization.

That decision cost me members of my family, my friends, my reputation, and in some respects, my identity. I had to rebuild my life one brick at a time.

Today I'm a happy, productive, and highly fulfilled person.

The purpose of this blog is to help others who are experiencing strained or broken relationships, self destructive behavior, addictions, depression, and low self esteem as a direct result of involvement in destructive mind control cults.

I hope you find this blog to be as helpful to you in reading it as is to me in writing it.